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GLOZE

/ɡləʊz/5 letters

Definition of GLOZE

noun

A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English glosen, from Old French gloser, from Medieval Latin glossa. Doublet of gloss and glossa.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GLOZE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its one board, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
36
First board
85
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 85 days.

First ever to find it

jammeroo

on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GLOZE
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GLOZE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGLOZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start GLOZE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GLOZE?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 36 - and most players walked straight past it.

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